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Part 4 — Registration of Members Registers

26 Conditions of practice re joint firms

Current to 2022-11-16 · Official PDF

(1) A joint firm may engage in the practice of both architecture
and engineering in
(a) the name of the individu als who are its partners,
(b) its corporate name, or
(c) any other name that is appr oved by the Council pursuant to
the regulations.
(2) A joint firm shall advise the Registrar in writing of the names
of the individual shareholders, directors and officers of the firm and
of the employees who are professional engineers or are registered
architects and of any change in them immediately after the change
occurs.
(3) If a joint firm causes plans, drawings, detail drawings and
specifications to be prepared in its practice of architecture and to be
imprinted with the stamp issued to the firm, it shall also cause them
to be signed by and imprinted with the stamp or seal of the
registered architect who had personal supervision, direction and
control over their preparation.
(4) A joint firm
RSA 2000

(a) may hold itself out as " architects and engineers" or
"engineers and architects" only if it has both architects and
engineers as partners or shareholders in an arrangement that
is satisfactory to the Council or the council of the Engineers
Association, as the case may be;
(b) shall not hold itself out as "architects and engineers" or
"engineers and architects" if the architects or engineers, as
the case may be, are employees only and not partners or
shareholders, or if the partnership or shareholding
arrangement is not satisfactory to the Council or the council
of the Engineers Association, as the case may be.
RSA 1980 cA-44.1 s26;1981 c5 s9